Monthly Archive for January, 2006

Passepartout’s development slowdown

Published on January 27, 2006 in Graphics. 2 Comments

Rasmus Kaj wrote in an email to Passepartout’s mailing list today, that the university’s newspaper this application was created for isn’t published anymore and so they have “no real use for Passepartout any more. Hence the lack of recent development.”

This is not a good thing for me. I was actually hoping for Passepartout to replace Adobe Framemaker gradually, and now this might never happen.

SVG and stuff

Published on January 24, 2006 in Graphics. 3 Comments

It took me just half an hour to upgrade to WordPress 2.0 and install FAlbum plug-in (Flickr gallery) for it. These guys are doing excellent work.

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Good news is that SVG 1.2 Full Specification is not ready yet and changes can still be applied. If you find something important at SVG 1.1/1.2/2.0 Requirements page you desperately need in Inkscape, you might like raising you hand and talking to SVG developers. Otherwise you will have to wait 3-4 more years to have gradient mesh, CMYK, named colors etc in your favourite vector graphics editor :)

A discussion on some of proposed changes has already started in www-svg@ list.

GEGL’s birthday

Published on January 20, 2006 in Graphics. 0 Comments

According to GEGL’s ChangeLog it celebrates its 6th birthday today.

I really hope Sven will manage to outline exact changes that should be done to make GEGL integration into GIMP happen. It will be disaster, if volunteers go away again like it happened several times before.

On CREATE’s stuff. We need to think about modularization of components. If we are to distribute huge textures, like it was suggested in recent thread at gimp-developer@, we’ll have to keep them separately. Oh well, writing a scons build script shouldn’t be that difficult, and install path is known :)